Expectations
• Overview of the need for urgent action on the increasing intensity and frequency of extreme weather
events and associated costs;
• Overview of climate finance institutions and work under the UNFCCC;
• Overview of the wider climate finance architecture, including multilateral, bilateral and national
finance institutions;
• Overview of current climate finance flows, both public and private.

Panel
composition

Paul Oquist; Presidency of Nicaragua

Barbara Buchner; Climate Policy Initiative (CPI)

Barbara Buchner is Senior Director of Climate Policy Initiative and head of CPI Europe. She leads CPI’s
workstream on global climate finance. Her work focuses on international climate finance to address the
question of whether it is adequate and productive. A core topic of interest is the effectiveness of
implemented climate and energy policies; with a major focus on the EU ETS. Barbara is Austrian Citizen and
holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Graz and a Masters Degree in Economics within the
Economics/Environmental Sciences Joint Program at the University of Graz and University of Technology of
Graz.
Previously Barbara served as a Senior Energy and Environment Analyst at the International Energy Agency.
Before that, she was working as a Senior Researcher at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei. She has also been a
Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology within its Joint Program on the Science and
Policy of Global Change & Centre for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. Barbara serves on various
Advisory Boards including the Advisory Board of the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition (BCFN). Barbara
is lead author of CPI’s ‘Climate Finance Landscape’ Report and has published a number of
articles in peer-reviewed journals as well as in books. She is contributing author of a recent book on
‘Pricing Carbon. The European Emissions Trading System’ (Cambridge University Press) and
co-editor of a book on ‘Allocation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme’ (Cambridge
University Press).

09:45 to
11:00:"Financing and investment drivers
for mitigation activities"

ExpectationsDiscuss the underlying opportunities, challenges,
barriers and factors that determine investment decisions and/or the allocation of financial resources in
mitigation activities, including a brief overview of current trends. Among other key questions,
participants will have an opportunity to reflect on why investments in clean technologies still lag behind
those in fossil fuel intensive technologies.

Panel compositionForm: e.g. Roundtable discussion with a Q&A session between the
audience and the panel.

Dr. Hugh Sealy is
Canadian by birth and Barbadian by descent. He obtained his Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical) from McGill
University, Montreal, Canada. He completed a Master of Science in Environmental Pollution Science at Brunel
University,
Middlesex, U.K. and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Environmental Science at the University of Liverpool, U.K.
He is the recipient of a Barbados Scholarship and a Commonwealth Scholarship.
Dr. Sealy is a consultant with over 25 years of experience as a project manager, a professional engineer,
an environmental scientist and a university lecturer. He has managed development projects, particularly in
relation to energy, water supply,
wastewater treatment and integrated solid waste management and conducted numerous environmental studies
throughout the Caribbean region.
He was the Chairman of the Barbados National Energy Policy Committee and the Chairman of the National
Commission on Sustainable Development for the Government of Barbados. He was responsible for the
development of the Barbados National Energy
Policy and for monitoring the implementation of the National Sustainable Development Policy. He assisted in
the development of national energy policies, which include low carbon development strategies, for Dominica
and for Grenada. Dr. Sealy served as
Energy and Sustainable Development Advisor to the Government of Grenada from 2008 – 2012.
In January 2008, Dr. Sealy was elected as a Member of the Executive Board of the Clean Development
Mechanism (CDM) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Dr. Sealy served
as one of two representatives for Latin
America and the Caribbean until January 2011. In December 2011 Dr. Sealy was reelected to the Executive
Board of the CDM to serve as the Member for the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS). In January 2013,
Dr. Sealy was elected as Vice Chair of
the CDM Executive Board.
Currently, Dr. Sealy is a Professor in the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in the
School of Medicine at St. George’s University in Grenada. Since 2007, Dr. Sealy has served as a
senior negotiator for the AOSIS Climate Change Technical
Negotiating Team at the Conferences of the Parties under the UNFCCC.

Abyd Karmali is
Managing Director and Global Head of Carbon Markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and serves on the
firm's Environment Council which steers the bank's USD 50 billion environmental business
initiative. Mr Karmali has worked for more than twenty years on climate change, carbon markets, and climate
finance. He is currently Honorary Special Advisor to the Climate Markets and Investment Association after
serving as its elected President from 2008-2013. Over the past six years, his teams have won several
awards for innovative climate finance transactions. Mr. Karmali holds a MS in Technology and Policy from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Vikram Widge heads
climate finance & policy at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector affiliate
of the World Bank. The unit supports development and deployment of innovative market-based solutions
to help mobilize private capital for climate-smart investments in emerging markets. Prior to this he
built IFC’s carbon finance business that he continues to manage. He also leads IFC's
engagement externally and provides leadership internally on climate policy, climate risk and adaptation,
and greenhouse gas accounting and related metrics.

Vikram has over two decades of experience in developing and financing projects that deploy clean
technologies in emerging markets, including renewables, waste-to-energy, fuel cells and electric
vehicles. He also structured and managed an off-grid solar PV fund for six years. Vikram has a
bachelor’s in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi and a master’s in
resource economics from the University of Maryland, where he was a Graduate Fellow. After working in
the private sector for 10 years, he has been with IFC since 1994.

11:15 to 12:30 Group A: "Innovative approaches and
case studies by national, bilateral, regional and multilateral organisations and by the private
sector"

Expectations
Show-casing of concrete experiences in developing and implementing policies, strategies and activities, as
well as necessary measures or steps to accelerate the mobilization of finance for mitigation at the
national and regional level.
Discussion of cases of private sector engagement and partnerships to support mitigation activities.

Panel compositionForm: Brief presentations from panellists, followed by round table discussion with a Q&A between
the audience and panellists.
Facilitator:Neeraj Prasad; World Bank Institute

Neeraj Prasad is
Manager of the WBI climate change team, which focuses on capacity development and practitioner networks on
sustainable energy, climate-smart agriculture, sustainable cities and low emissions development. Before
joining the World Bank in 1996, Mr. Prasad was a member of the Indian Administrative Service, with
assignments as a development administrator, in the federal Finance Ministry, and as Assistant to
India’s Executive Director in the IMF. In the World Bank, he supported and led Environment sector
operations in Asia, including its single largest Carbon Finance transaction, the China HFC-23
project. He supported the management of its Carbon Finance Unit.
He has co-authored a number of climate change analytical pieces and handbooks, and has spoken on the topic
at seminars and workshops across the world.

Panellists:

Mary Gomez-Torres;Corporacion Andina de Fomento (CAF)

• Industrial
Engineer, with specialised studies in Finances and Economy matters. Wide experience in corporate financial
areas, planning, and environmental financing. Working experience in multilateral banking, public sector,
real sector firms and higher education.
• Seven-year working experience at the Andean Development Corporation (CAF), a Multilateral Banking
institution engaged in business deals involving the sale of carbon emission reductions for the Kyoto
Protocol and voluntary markets, and funding of renewable energy projects. Nowadays, Head of Climate
Change Unit.
• Consultant Experience: Environmental funding, with a focus on the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean
Development Mechanism (CDM) and business plans to get foreign investment involved in environmental business
deals.
• Seven-year experience in managerial positions at the Colombian Ministry of the Environment’s
Planning and Funding Area. Working experience in the design of economic and financial tools in the field of
environmental management, with an emphasis on pollution rates, water resource management funds, and
water-resource use rates. Sector studies on environmental expenditure and financial strategy for
environmental investment in Colombia. Design and direction of programmes and strategies for green markets
in Colombia. Design and starting-up of operations with multilateral banking and technical co-operation.
Participation at the National Strategy for the Clean Development Facility Study in Colombia, and setting up
of the National Agency for Climate Change.
• Teaching experience in the financial and management control systems area. Teaching Experience in
environmental finance.

Marc Stuart;
Private Equity Investor, Allotrope Ventures

Avril Benchimol;Interamerican Development Bank

Avril Benchimol is the
program coordinator of a US$ 7 million regional facility at the Multilateral Investment Fund, a member of
the Inter-American Development Bank. The facility provides technical assistance grants to microfinance
institutions (MFIs) in Latin America and the Caribbean to develop green lending products aimed at
facilitating MFI clients’ access to both clean energies and energy efficiency as well as adaptation
strategies to climate change.
In 2011, she received her Master’s degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service,
where she graduated with honors for academic excellence.
Prior to her graduate studies, she spent six years in investment banking in London, Madrid and Brussels
working for Morgan Stanley and Fortis Bank. Her main areas of expertise include origination of equity and
debt transactions as well as sales and structuring of equity derivatives. She has an undergraduate degree
in business administration from ICADE (Spain). She is originally from Madrid and speaks fluent English,
French, and Spanish.

13:30 to
14:45:"Financing and investment drivers
for adaptation activities"

Expectations
Overview of existing opportunities, challenges, barriers and factors that determine financial flows for
adaptation activities, including a discussion on the overall financial needs, as well as possibilities for
increased private investment involvement.

Panel compositionForm: Brief presentations from panellists, followed by round table discussion with a Q&A between
the audience and panellists.
Facilitator:Naderev Saño; Co-Chair, UNFCCC/LTF work programme

Panellists:Juan Hoffmaister;Legal Adviser, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bolivia; Adaptation Committee
member and representing the Chair of the Committee

Mr. Juan P.
Hoffmaister is a specialist on international governance and law, with expertise in adaptation, disaster
risk reduction, and development. He works for the Universidad de la Cordillera, La Paz and as a
senior advisor to the Bolivian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also serves as negotiator for the Group of
77 and China in multiple issues related to adaptation. Mr. Hoffmaister is a member of the UNFCCC Adaptation
Committee, representing Latin America and the Caribbean. He has postgraduate studies in international law,
a masters in international governance and ecosystems, and a bachelors on ecology and environmental policy.
He has authored and co-authored multiple peer-reviewed publications on adaptation finance and the use of
development instruments for achieving climate co-benefits.

Mr. Carlos Fuller is
the International and Regional Liaison Officer of the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, an
intergovernmental organization established to coordinate CARICOM’s response to climate change. Mr.
Fuller’s primary responsibility is to coordinate the region in the international climate change
negotiation process. He is a meteorologist, and prior to joining the Centre, he was the Director of the
National Meteorological Service of Belize. He was the country’s chief climate change negotiator from
1990 until his retirement from the government service in 2008. In that capacity he participated in
negotiating the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. He
also represented Belize at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), the United
Nations Small Island Developing States Conference (UNSIDS), the World Summit on Sustainable Development
(WSSD), the UN Conference on the Ten-Year Review of the Barbados Programme of Action (SIDS+10) and the
United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Mr. Fuller was awarded the George Price
Lifetime Award for Emergency Management and the Officer of the Order British Empire (OBE) for public
service.

Smita Nakhooda is a
Research Fellow in the Climate Change Environment and Forests Program at ODI where she leads work on
international finance to help developing countries address climate change. This includes efforts to monitor
the climate finance, and to understand its effectiveness.
She was previously a Senior Associate in the Institutions and Governance Program at the World Resources
Institute , where she led research and engagement programmes on the governance of electricity in major
developing countries, and on the environmental impacts of development finance. She also developed a program
of work addressing governance of forests in the context of global efforts to reduce emissions from
deforestation and degradation. In 2010 she was a Senior Research Associate of Idasa, an African democracy
institute based in South Africa, working with civil society and independent research institutions to inform
and influence emerging policies and plans in the electricity sector. Earlier in her career she worked on
rural electrification in East Africa with the United Nations Development Program.
Smita holds an MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics and Political
Science (UK), and a BA in Government and Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College (USA).

14:45 to
16:00:Group B: "Innovative approaches and case studies by national,
bilateral, regional and multilateral organisations and by the private sector in providing funding and
investments for adaptation"

Expectations
Show-casing of concrete experiences in developing and implementing policies, strategies and activities, as
well as necessary measures or steps to accelerate the mobilization of finance for adaptation at the
national and regional level.
Discussion of cases of private sector engagement and partnerships to support adaptation activities.

Panel compositionForm: Brief presentations from panellists, followed by round table discussion with a Q&A between
the audience and the panel.
Facilitator:Stefan Agne; European Commission

Panellists:Monica Araya; Senior Advisor, Costa Rica

Ana Fornells; Former Chair and current member of the Adaptation Fund Board /Daouda
Ndiaye; Secretariat of the Adaptation Fund Board

Daouda, a Senegalese
national, is an Adaptation Officer at the Adaptation Fund Board Secretariat, which he joined in November
2010. His main responsibilities include the review of projects and programme proposals and monitoring of
the Fund portfolio, as well as support the Board in the preparation of policy and strategic documents of
the Adaptation Fund. Prior to this position, Daouda worked for three years in the Environment & Energy
Unit of the UN Development Program's regional centre in Dakar, covering Western and Central Africa. His
main responsibility was to provide support to UNDP country offices in mobilizing funds from the Global
Environment Facility, designing and supervising the implementation of biodiversity and land degradation
projects. Prior to that, he worked for one year at the Ecological Monitoring Centre in Dakar, Senegal, as
an expert and research officer in soil carbon sequestration, agriculture, and land degradation.
Daouda has seven years of experience in the design, implementation and management of environmental research
projects dealing with the biological regulation of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations both in
Senegal and the US, including a three-year research associate position at the University of Louisville in
Kentucky. He has authored several scientific publications and communications on the topic. Daouda holds a
PhD in Ecology from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) and a master's degree in Business
Administration from the University of Bourgogne in France.
Alexander Froede;Environment and Climate Change Division, Competence Centre for Climate Change,
GIZ

Alexander Fröde
is the Project Director of GIZ's "Global GCF Readiness Programmes" which supports a set of
countries worldwide in the preparation for GCF. He also coordinates the activities on climate finance in
GIZ's Competence Center for Climate Change. He and his team supports GIZ's projects on climate
finance world-wide and is responsible for the development of tools, such as GIZ's "Ready for
climate finance approach" and the CliFAssess tool.
He is landscape ecologist with a specialization in international environmental law and environmental
ethics. Prior to his current work in GIZ headquarter he was based in Harare where he worked practically on
adaptation to climate change in savannah dry land in Zimbabwe and neighbouring countries.

A physical geographer
by training, Andrea Kutter has been since 2009 the Senior Program Coordinator for the Forest Investment
Program (FIP) and the Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) in the Climate Investment Funds (CIF)
Administrative Unit. Prior to that, she was the Senior Natural Resources Management Specialist in the
Secretariat of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). She has also worked as a Technical Officer for
Deutsche Gesellschaft für InternationaleZusammenarbeit (GIZ) in Argentina focusing on sustainable land
management in dry zones, and she began her career in the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) working
on Agenda 21 and land use planning.

Jorge Barrigh;General Manager of Ecoressources
Inc.

16:15 –
17:30:Group C: "The role of local
investors in mobilizing additional climate finance"

Expectations
Discuss which actions of the GCF, MDBs, NDBs, as well as local governments, would be considered most
helpful by local investors. The presentations as well as the discussion will be guided along a set of
questions and the main opinions.

Panel compositionForm: Brief opening statements by the facilitator and panellists, followed by round table discussion
with a Q&A between the audience and the panel.

Facilitator:Ulf Moslener; Frankfurt School of Management

Ulf Moslener is Member of the Standing Committee on Finance. He is professor for sustainable energy
finance at the faculty of Frankfurt School of Finance and Management in Germany. As Head of Research of the
UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate and Sustainable Energy Finance his current fields of research are the
economics of climate change, financing sustainable energy systems and climate finance. He was deputy head
of the department of „Environmental and Resource Economics and Environmental Management“ at the
Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim, Germany. His main areas of interest were
international climate policy, the analysis of carbon regulation, carbon emissions trading, and policy
instruments to promote renewable energy. Thereafter he joined KfW Development Bank, where he was dealing
with the practice of financing renewable energy and energy efficiency in developing and newly
industrialized countries within the German development co-operation, in particular related to the German
contribution to the Clean Technology Fund. Ulf Moslener holds a Diploma in Physics and a PhD in economics
from the University of Heidelberg.

Konrad von Ritter has over 25 years of experience in sustainable development, of which 20 years with the
World Bank. He is currently an independent consultant working on climate change and cities, as well as on
Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) and climate oriented crowd-funding and micro-finance. He
is also a Director at WEnergy, a Singapore based start-up company offering renewable energy solutions
focused on East Asia. As a manager at the World Bank, he created the climate change practice at the World
Bank Institute, pioneered a Cities and Climate Change learning program, and initiated a NAMA Practitioner
Dialogue. As a project leader he helped introduce economic instruments in environmental management in the
Philippines, and started up the first Ozone Depleting Substances phase out projects in Malaysia and
Thailand. Konrad holds master degrees in economics and in political science from the FU Berlin,
Germany.

Dirk Forrister is
President and CEO of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). Previously, he was Managing
Director at Natsource LLC, the manager of one of the world’s largest carbon funds. Earlier in
his career, Mr. Forrister served as Chairman of the White House Climate Change Task Force in the Clinton
Administration and Assistant U.S. Secretary of Energy for Congressional, Public and Intergovernmental
Affairs. Previously, he was legislative counsel to Congressman Jim Cooper of Tennessee. He was
also Energy Program Manager at Environmental Defense Fund. Forrister now serves on the Board of
Directors of the Verified Carbon Standard and as a member of the Advisory Boards of the National Center for
Atmospheric Research and the American Carbon Registry.

16:15 to 17:30:Group D: "Tracking climate finance"

Expectations
Stock-taking of existing guidelines and process under the UNFCCC and on-going initiatives for tracking
climate related financial flows by other institutions.
Discussion on potential approaches taken by recipient countries and other relevant actors to account for
climate and responsible investments.

Panel compositionForm: Roundtable discussion with a Q&A between the audience and the panel.

Facilitator:Dennis Tirpak; World Resource Institute

Dennis Tirpak has worked on climate change since 1985. He has held positions with Texaco and
Alcoa and was the Director of Global Change Policy Division at the US Environmental Protection Agency; the
Coordinator of Science and Technology at the United Nations Secretariat for the Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Head of climate change studies at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD). He was also a coordinating lead author on the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate He is currently a Senior Fellow at the World Resources Institute in Washington D.C, advising
businesses, governments, and international organizations. In recent years he has written extensively on
accounting issues under the convention and particularly about climate finance.
Panellists:Alvaro Umana; Former Minister, Costa Rica